OT - Assisted Dying Bill

[GlennMiller]

You generally find that the key supporters of Assisted Dying are those who have some personal connection with an individual who is/has been terminally ill and has/had to endure suffering. Unless you have experienced the indignity and suffering which some medical conditions impose on some terminally ill people, you really don't have the full range of information to make a decision on the acceptability, or not, of Assisted Dying.

Those who object tend to be concerned about slippage and the possibility that the legislation would allow an ever broadening raft of people to opt to end their lives early and the possibility that vulnerable individuals might be bullied into ending their lives by unscrupulous relatives. Others object on religious grounds with which I have no truck.

The way that legislation is being proposed suggests to me that it will be watertight and only those in desperate need will qualify. I sincerely hope that the vote goes in favour of assisted dying - the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.